Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tamer
1 sense of tamer
Sense 1
tamer -- (an animal trainer who tames wild animals)
=> animal trainer, handler -- (one who trains or exhibits animals)
Antonyms of adj tame
4 senses of tame
Sense 1
tame -- (flat and uninspiring)
INDIRECT (VIA unexciting) -> exciting -- (creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip")
Sense 2
tame (vs. wild) -- (very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed")
wild (vs. tame) -- (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control; "wild talk"; "wild parties")
=> chaotic, disorderly -- (completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing)
=> delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained -- (marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure")
=> frenzied, manic -- (affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason; "a frenzied attack"; "a frenzied mob"; "the prosecutor's frenzied denunciation of the accused"- H.W.Carter; "outbursts of drunken violence and manic activity and creativity")
=> unsubdued -- (not brought under control; "the horse remained unsubdued")
Sense 3
tame (vs. wild), tamed -- (brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries")
wild (vs. tame), untamed -- (in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants")
=> feral, ferine, savage -- (wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs")
=> semi-wild -- (partially wild)
=> unbroken -- (not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts")
=> undomesticated -- (not domesticated; "a few undomesticated horses left")
Sense 4
meek, tame -- (very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes)
INDIRECT (VIA docile) -> stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate -- (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)
Similarity of adj tame
4 senses of tame
Sense 1
tame -- (flat and uninspiring)
=> unexciting (vs. exciting) -- (not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life")
Sense 2
tame (vs. wild) -- (very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed")
=> subdued -- (quieted and brought under control; "children were subdued and silent")
Also See-> quiet#1
Sense 3
tame (vs. wild), tamed -- (brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries")
=> broken, broken in -- (tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in")
=> cultivated -- (no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries")
=> docile, gentle -- (easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient")
=> domestic, domesticated -- (converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize")
=> tamed -- (brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed")
Also See-> tractable#1, manipulable#1
Sense 4
meek, tame -- (very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes)
=> docile (vs. stubborn) -- (willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation")